11-letter words containing f, a, s, c
- fast-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively rapidly, utilized especially in actions requiring maximum effort of short duration, as sprinting (distinguished from slow-twitch).
- fault scarp — scarp (def 1).
- feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
- felicitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of felicitate.
- feudalistic — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- fiançailles — a betrothal, engagement
- fianchettos — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fianchetto.
- fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
- final cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- financials' — pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary: financial operations.
- fire escape — an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
- first cause — God.
- first-class — of the highest or best class or quality: a first-class movie.
- fiscal drag — the process by which, during inflation, rising incomes draw people into higher tax brackets, so that their real incomes may fall; this acts as a restraint on the expansion of the economy
- fiscal year — any yearly period without regard to the calendar year, at the end of which a firm, government, etc., determines its financial condition.
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- flare stack — A flare stack is a high vertical pipe for carrying unwanted gas so it can be burned off.
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- flat screen — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
- flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
- flocculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flocculate.
- floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- footscraper — a metal bar, set in a small frame and attached to a doorstep, used in cleaning mud from the bottoms of the shoes before entering a house.
- forced sale — a sale held as a result of a judicial order.
- forecasters — Plural form of forecaster.
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- forecastles — Plural form of forecastle.
- forinstance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- formalistic — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- formicaries — Plural form of formicary.
- fornicators — Plural form of fornicator.
- fort carson — a military reservation in E central Colorado, S of Colorado Springs.
- fort casper — a fort in central Wyoming, near Casper: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- foster care — the raising or supervision of foster children, as orphans or delinquents, in an institution, group home, or private home, usually arranged through a government or social-service agency that provides remuneration for expenses.
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- franchisees — Plural form of franchisee.
- franchisers — Plural form of franchiser.
- franchising — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- franciscans — of or relating to St. Francis or the Franciscans.
- franticness — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- fratricides — Plural form of fratricide.
- free ascent — the upward traveling or path of a rocket carried by its own inertia after its engine has stopped operating.
- freelancers — Plural form of freelancer.
- french seam — a seam in which the raw edges of the cloth are completely covered by sewing them together, first on the right side, then on the wrong.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- fresh-faced — having a healthy or ruddy appearance
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- fungistatic — (of a substance or preparation) inhibiting the growth of a fungus.